Study points to fields offering lower-skill workers a leg up

The Baltimore-area job market is largely split between high-skill, higher-pay work and low-skill, low-paying positions, but opportunities exist to help workers without a college education navigate to jobs in the middle that pay the bills, a new study suggests.

The report, to be released Wednesday by the Opportunity Collaborative, recommends six fields that "offer the greatest promise for low skilled workers to move into family-supporting, mid-skilled jobs": health care, construction, information technology, transportation and warehousing, business services and manufacturing.

Market-research firm RDA Global, which prepared the Baltimore Region Talent Development Pipeline Study, considered skill requirements, pay, area training programs and the likelihood of job openings in the future — either from growth or turnover.

Opportunity Collaborative, coordinated by the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, is made up of nonprofits and government agencies across the region.

Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown told union members Monday that he will back legislation to increase Maryland's minimum wage in the 2014 General Assembly session whether Gov. Martin O'Malley is on board or not.

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